Women during the Victorian Age were completely different from modern women. During the Victorian Age, women had distinctive roles within the society. Although women were mostly dedicated to household chores, there were actually some jobs dedicated to women: nursing and domestic service. Compared with the variety of men's high paid jobs, women had limited job choices and offerings, which is different from today. Within the house, cleaning, cooking, sewing, and taking care of children were all considered to be "woman's jobs."
Woman's social class set restrictions for women because women were not considered to be of equal social class level as men. Therefore, women were expected to listen to their husbands and be obedient at all times. Also, women had other burdens such as bearing as many children as they can. Having numerous children, as it was common during the Victorian Age, significantly restricted job opportunities for women. On top of this, women during the Victorian Age had huge physical burdens as well. There was lack of social services such as proper medical cares available when women were expected to have numerous children. Judging from such contexts, women from the Victorian Age definitely lived a quite varied life from contemporary females.
Works Cited
- "Women's life." Home. N.p, n.d. web.11.Feb.2010.
- Fashion-Era.com,Pauline Weston Thomas for, "A Woman's Place in Victorian Society-Social and Fashion history." Fashion History Costume Trends and Eras, Trends Victorians-Hautecouture N.p.,n.d.Web.11.Feb.2010.
Visuals
-This source is reliable because the website is hosted by the University of Texas (sponsorship.) The site discusses woman's issues of the past two centuries including the motherhood of Victorian women. The purpose of this article is the inform University students about the comparison between Victorian women and modern day women.
-The website is copyrighted 2004-2009, which is quite recent. The author of the web page, Peter Ward, assembled the site for the purpose of private study and research is doing private research of the Wards' family history. He thanks non-family members for providing inputs and valuable data, which endows the web page with relatively little bias.
Women in the Victorian Society
Summary
Women during the Victorian Age were completely different from modern women. During the Victorian Age, women had distinctive roles within the society. Although women were mostly dedicated to household chores, there were actually some jobs dedicated to women: nursing and domestic service. Compared with the variety of men's high paid jobs, women had limited job choices and offerings, which is different from today. Within the house, cleaning, cooking, sewing, and taking care of children were all considered to be "woman's jobs."
Woman's social class set restrictions for women because women were not considered to be of equal social class level as men. Therefore, women were expected to listen to their husbands and be obedient at all times. Also, women had other burdens such as bearing as many children as they can. Having numerous children, as it was common during the Victorian Age, significantly restricted job opportunities for women. On top of this, women during the Victorian Age had huge physical burdens as well. There was lack of social services such as proper medical cares available when women were expected to have numerous children. Judging from such contexts, women from the Victorian Age definitely lived a quite varied life from contemporary females.
Works Cited
- "Women's life." Home. N.p, n.d. web.11.Feb.2010.
- Fashion-Era.com,Pauline Weston Thomas for, "A Woman's Place in Victorian Society-Social and Fashion history." Fashion History Costume Trends and Eras, Trends Victorians-Hautecouture N.p.,n.d.Web.11.Feb.2010.
Visuals
Victorian Woman
Victorian Maid
Works Cited
- . N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Feb. 2010. <http://images.google.co.kr/imglanding?q=victorian%20maid&imgurl=http:ourwardfamily.com/1800s/Parlour_Maid_-_1.JPG&imgrefurl=http://ourwardfamily.com/victorian_servants.htm&usg=__bOMreD_PRfoc1t-Zy36c3bCdMxk=&h=768&w=310&sz=30&hl=ko&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=rC0N>.
- 59666.jpg." . N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Feb. 2010. <http://images.google.co.kr/imglanding?q=victorian%20woman&imgurl=http:www.teaspirit.com/teabagladies/uploaded_images/lady_in_victorian_black_dress_having_tea-759666.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.teaspirit.com/teabagladies/2005/11/victorian-woman-wearing-blac>.
For Further Research:
Website 1
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ulrich/femhist/motherhood.sthml
-This source is reliable because the website is hosted by the University of Texas (sponsorship.) The site discusses woman's issues of the past two centuries including the motherhood of Victorian women. The purpose of this article is the inform University students about the comparison between Victorian women and modern day women.
Website 2
http://ourwardfamily.com/victorian_servants.htm
-The website is copyrighted 2004-2009, which is quite recent. The author of the web page, Peter Ward, assembled the site for the purpose of private study and research is doing private research of the Wards' family history. He thanks non-family members for providing inputs and valuable data, which endows the web page with relatively little bias.